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Christophe Taupin

Pluramon - Dreams Top Rock (Karaoke Kalk)
Alias - Muted (Anticon)
The Soft Pink Truth - Do You Party ? (Soundslike)
Animal Collective - Spirit They 're Gone Spirit They've Vanished/Danse Manatee (Fat Cat)
Matthew Dear - Leave Luck To Heaven (Spectral)
Mu-Ziq - Bilious Paths (Planet Mu)
Nobody - Pacific Drift (Ubiquity)
Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher (Warp)
The Chap - The Horse (Lo Recordings)
Why - Oaklandazulasylum (Anticon)
Wasteland - Amen Fire (Transparent)
Nettle - Firecamp Stories Remixes (The Agriculture)
The Books - The Lemon Of Pink (Tomlab)
Emotional Joystick - Bellicose Pacific (Zod)
Crack : We Are Rock - Cosmic Mind Flight (Tigerbeat6)
So - So (Thrill Jockey)
The Bug - Pressure (Klein)
Hymie's Basement - s/t (Lex)
Ricardo Villalobos - Alcachofa (Playhouse)
Dwayne Sodahberk - Unfortunately (Tigerbeat6)

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Frédéric Foreau

Double Leopards - Halve Maen (Eclipse)
Lab Rat XL - Mice Or Cyborg (Clone)
Rhythm & Sound - W/ The Artists (Burial Mix)
John Fahey - Red Cross (Revenant)
Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow (Load)
Cat Power - You Are Free (Matador)
Wasteland - Amen Fire (Transparent)
Tim Hecker - Radio Amor (Mille Plateaux)
Pluramon - Dreams Top Rock (Karaoke Kalk)
Chris Watson - Weather Report (Touch)
Animal Collective - Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished (Fat Cat)
Plastikman - Closer (Novamute)
Maher Shalal Hash Baz - Blues Du Jour (Geographic)
Ricardo Villalobos - Alcachofa (Playhouse)
Wire - Send (Pink Flag)

Angels Of Light - Everything Is Good Here/Please Come Home (Young God)
Matthew Dear - Leave Luck To Heaven (Spectral)
Dean Roberts - Be Mine Tonight (Kranky)
Monolake - Momentum (Imbalance)
The Bug - Pressure (Klein)


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David Sanson aka That Summer / + Rédacteur en chef d'Octopus


Alva Noto/Ryuichi Sakamoto - Vrioon (Raster Noton)
Robin Guthrie - Imperial (Bella Union)
Charles Koechlin - Les Heures persanes (Kathryn Stott, piano) (Chandos)
Rhythm & Sound - The Artists/The Versions (Burial Mix)
David Sylvian - Blemish (Samadhi Sound)

+ Evénement : Clara
+ Lien : www.thatsummer.com

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Label Broklyn Beats

Dizzee Razcal "Boy in da Corner" LP
LFO Demon "Apolitical=Braindead" 7"
Zea "We Buried Indie Rock Years Ago" single(Transformed Dreams)
Jean Grae "Bootleg of a Bootleg" EP (Fat Beats)
Matt Elliot "The Mess We Made" LP(Domino)
Wasteland "Amen Fire" CD (Transparent)
Black Dice "Cone Toaster" single (DFA)
Animal Collective "Here Comes The Indian" LP(Paw Tracks)
Donna Summer "This Needs To Be Your Style" LP(Irritant)
Electric Kettle "Faster Ceremony..." 12" EP (Hurry Up)
Nephilim Modulation Systems LP(Big Dada)
Jay-Z / Kanye West "Encore"
Kazamix and Friends 12" LP (Kazamix)
Electromeca "Riddim" 10" EP (Casse-tete)
Exhaust "Enregistreur" LP (Constellation)
Nettle "Campfire Stories Remixes" (The Agriculture)
Rhythm and Sound "w/ Artists" CD
50 Cent "In da Club"

+ best non-music event: The Blackout 2003
+ best unusual website: www.kazamix.com

While not a blow-out year, it was a year of healthy growing pains. New York seemed to do better than most places
and definitely healthier than 2002! Black Dice and Animal Collective literally blazed new forest paths...
and don't sleep on Sightings! Donna Summer and Drop the Lime came correct for US breakcore, while Wasteland
debuted a solid full-length. J's from our neighborhood and "Encore" shines. 50, well...
If 3rd Eye Foundation was VU, than Matt Elliot's new one is Lou Reed's "Berlin." Big Jus aka Nephilim Modulation
Systems was one of the few to question Bush - respect... and maybe the reason so much music did suck last year.
If it's gonna suck, bring on Dizzee - super buggedly innovative. If you haven't heard this record, get it. A lot of the
underground blew its wad in 2002 and we expect rebounds in 2004. Nonetheless, Electric Kettle, Electromeca,
Nettle, LFO Demon and Zea dropped solid slept-on shit. Here's hoping for an end to the somnambulism in 2004.

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Charlotte Lemaître / www.loquo.com

1 - Prefuse 73 - Extinguished:Outtakes(Warp)
2 - Madlib Invades Blue Note - Shades of Blue(Blue Note records)
3 - Tim Hecker - Radio Amor(Mille Plateaux)
4 - Criterion & Doily (Broklyn Beats)
5 - Jahbitat (No-Domain Recording)
6- Kopernik (Eastern Developments)
7- Cyne - Time Being (La botanica del Jibaro)
8- Frederik Schikowski - Eineblick ins fanilien album (Irritant Records)
9- Ghislain Poirier - Beats As politics (Chocolate Industries)
10- Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner (XL)


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Annibale (Dense Promotion)

1. AGF - Westernization Completed (Orthlorng Musork) CD
2. 2nd Gen - Flicknives (Quatermass) CD
3. 2/5 BZ - No Turistik No Egzotik (2/5 BZ) 12"
4. T.Raumschmiere - Monstertruckdriver (Mute) 12"
5. Column One - The Audience Is Sleeping (90% Wasser) CD
6. Town & Country - 5 (Thrill Jockey) LP
7. Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Vrioon (Raster-Noton) LP
8. Donna Summer - This Needs To Be Your Style (Irritant) CD
9. Chlorgeschlecht - Unyoga (Deco) CD
10. COH - Electric Electric (Mego) 12"

+ non musical souvenir:
Column One - Braunserver (90% Wasser) VHS-Video

+ link to a webpage i like:
www.phonebashing.com

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Marcus Schmickler (Pluramon)

Keith Rowe/ John Tilbury - "Duos For Doris" (Erstwhile)
Lightning Bolt - "Wonderful Rainbow" (Load)
Ilsa Gold - "Regretten Rien" (Mego)
50 Cent - "In Da Club Beyonce Remix" (Rip Off)
Maja Radkje - "Voice" (Rune Grammophone)
Hecker - "Sun Pandämonium" (Mego)
Phil Niblock - "Movement of People Working" (Extreme)
Yasunao Tone - "Yasunao Tone" (Asphodel)
Whitehouse - "Wriggle 12"" (Susan Lawly)
Eruption - "Walter Drumm Lonberg Holm" (Grob)

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Phon.o / Label Shitkatapult

Album:
THE SOFT PINK TRUTH "do you party?"
GOLDCHAINS "young miss america"
APPARAT"Duplex"
ELLEN ALLIEN "berlinette"
BUS "in the middle of the road"
FOUR TET "Rounds"
DAVID KITT "Square 1"


EP+12":
KIT CLAYTON vs. SAFETY SCISSORS "the ping pong ep"
FEADZ "on level m"
MODESELEKTOR "death medley"
KIT CLAYTON "when cedars fall"
APHEX TWIN "2 mixes for cash on a 12" "
GOLD CHAINS "the game"
SECONDO "watch what you are saying"

+ A non musical souvenir:
TOM SACHS-exhibition at Guggenheim/berlin

+ link
www.shitkatapult.com

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Label Alku
(in no particular order)

Ludacris "Chicken And Beer"
Chingy "Jackpot"
Britney "In The Zone"
Hecker "Sun Pandamonium"
G-Unit "Automatic Gunfire part 4"
AE30 "Ae3o & H3ae"
Ween "Quebec"
Satans' Tornade "Satans' Tornade"
Yasunao Tone "Yasunao Tone"
Powerbooks For Peace "Your Brain Is A Crazy Guy"

+
non musical souvenir : playing chess with stephen sharp

+link
www.downhillbattle.org

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Mitchell Akyiama - boss du label Intr_version / moitié du duo Désormais

inner cosmosis - the beans (foreverbad)
the books - the lemon of pink (tomlab)
iron & wine - the sea & the rhythm (sub pop)
tim hecker - radio amor (mille plateaux)
colleen - everyone alive wants answers
town and country - 5 (thrill jockey)
polmo polpo - like hearts swelling (constellation)
vitaminsforyou - i'm sorry for ever and for always (intr_version)
ghislain poirier - conflits (intr_version)
do make say think - winter hymn country hymn secret hymn (constellation)

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Nick Kilroy (ElectroKIN)

in no order

1 - Tes - X2 [lex] album
2 - Mark Ronson - Ooh Wee [?] track
3 - Tobias Thomas and Superpitcher Live @ Kamera [?] mix
4 - Jackson - Utopia [sound of barclay] ep
5 - Bangkok Impact - Fear of your Eyes [viewlexx, I guess] track
6 - Chateau Flight - Cosmic Race [versatile] EP
7 - Noir Desire - Vive la fete [?] track
8 - Kanye West mixtape [roc-a-fella] album
9 - Avenue D - Do I Look Like a Slut [?] track
10 - Hymie's basement - 21st Century Pop Song [lex] track

+ the best non-musical event is
http://www.electrokin.com/zabriskie_point/

+ everyone should buy a digital camera......

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Jace Clayton aka Dj/Rupture - Nettle

1 Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner (XL)
2 Cat Power - You Are Free (Matador)
3 T.O.K. - Coulda Wha (Blaxxx)
4 Missy Elliott - This Is Not A Test (Elektra)
5 Hecker - 2 Track 12" (Mego/Synaethesia)
6 Various - Pharao Riddim (Germaican)
7 David Banner - Mississippi: The Screwed & Chopped Album (Universal)
8 Nettle - Firecamp Stories: The Remixes (theAgriculture)
9 Various - Vinyl Chill 2 (Quality Streetz)
10 Kelis - Milkshake (Star Trak)

+ favorite free software of 2003: Mozilla Firebird & Thunderbird
+ link : www.mozilla.org

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Guido Möbius / Autopilot Promotion

1. anne laplantine, "anne hamburg" (tomlab)
2. FS Blumm, "Lichten" (audio dregs)
3. Vert, "small pieces loosely joined" (sonig)
4. The Books, "the lemon of pink" (tomlab)
5. Sun, "sun" (Staubgold)

+ seeing Jamie Lidell perform live at Sonar festival!

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Toby Reynolds aka DJ Scud , 1/2 of Wasteland , Ambush Records

Essentials - Deja Vu FM (London Pirate station)
Cat Power - You Are Free
Gangstarr - The Ownerz
Lil Jon & The Eastside Boyz - Get Low Remix
Baby aka The No.1 Stunna feat The Clipse: What Happened To That Boy
Sunn 0))) - White-1
Keiji Haino - I Said, This Is The Son of Nihilism
Rechenzentrum - Director's Cut

+ Non musical souvenir: Taking up snowboarding

+ Link: www.neumu.net

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Dave Howell (FatCat)
(in no order)

Dorine_Muraille - 'Mani' (FatCat Splinter Series) - sorry, i know it's lame listing your own releases, but i love
this album so fucking much..
Black Dice - 'Beaches & Canyons' (FatCat) - ditto the above.. sorry!
Greg Malcolm - 'Homesick For Nowhere' (Corpus Hermeticum)
Bonnie Prince Billy - 'Master And Everyone' (Domino)
Pink & Brown - 'Shame Fantasy II' (Load)
Pimmon - 'Snaps. Crackles. Pops' (Tigerbeat)
Viktor Vaughan - 'Vaudeville Villain' (Sound Ink)
Hala Strana - 'Fielding' (Jewelled Antler)
Matmos - 'Civil War' (Matador)
Terminal 11 - 'Postmod / Premax' (Phthalo)
Neil Campbell / Campbell Kneale - 'S/T' (Celebrate PSI Phenomena)
Nick Forte - 'Pasted Lakes' (Schematic)


+ souvenirs? being stranded in the snow in new york city in february with no flight home, and having a huge
drunken snowfight with Black Dice on the pavement... travelling around New Zealand - stunning... meeting
and touring with Animal Collective, one of the most amazing live groups i've seen...

+ a website
http://www.interestingideas.com/out/out.htm


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Stephan Mathieu

Pablo Casals. J.S. Bach: cello suites #1-6 2CD, naxos
Grete Sultan. J.S. Bach: goldberg variationen from "the legacy vol.1", 2CD, labor records

visiting Barcelona with my wife and my brother for OFFF in may 2003

+ a link
www.ubu.com/aspen

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KID 606

1. Danzig-satan's helper
2. Samhain-watch them crawl

Best souvenir :
1. bottle of clonakilla shiraz wine I brought home from australia given to
me by pimmon

+ Link : www.tigerbeat6.com

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Thomas Morr (Label Morr Music)

1 MOGWAI Happy Songs For Happy People | PIAS
2 WHY? Almost Live FRom Anna's Cabin | Anticon
3 B.FLEISCHMANN Welcome Tourist | Charhizma ;)
4 ALIAS Muted | Anticon
5 SODASTREAM Minor Revival | Hausmusik
6 cLOUDDEAD Ten | Mush
7 THE POSTAL SERVICE Give Up | SubPop
8 RADIOHEAD Hail To The Thief | Parlophone
9 YO LA TENGO Summer Sun | Matador
10 JAYLIB Champion Sound | Stones Throw

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Sophy from Mars

Pluramon - Dreams Top Rock (Karaoke Kalk)
Luomo - the present lover (Force Tracks)
Pulse Programming - Tulsa For One Second (Aesthetics)
David Sylvian - Blemish (Samadhi Sound)
BOF - Lost In translation
Fourtet - Rounds (Domino)
Rachel's - Systems/Layers (Quarterstick)
Cat Power - You Are Free (Matador)
Ricardo Villalobos - Alcachofa (Playhouse)
Tim Hecker - Radio Amor (Mille Plateaux)

+ Love Streams
by John Cassavetes


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Lily / Vertical Form

1. Pale Horse & Rider - Moody Pike (Agenda)
2. John Fahey - Of Rivers & Religion (Warner Music)
3. Corker / Conboy - Radiant Idiot (Vertical Form)
4. Jose Gonzalez - Crosses (Imperial)
5. Les Triplettes De Belleville - BelleVille rendez Vous Soundtrack (Labels)
6. Lucien-n-Luciano - Blind Behavoiur (Peacefrog)
7. Mcenroe - Disenfranchised (Peanuts & Corm)
8. Black Strobe - Chemical Sweet Girl (Output)
9. Mice Parade - Obrigado Saudade (Fat Cat)
10. Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts Of The Great Highway (Jet Set)

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Anton aka 1/2 of LAC


Monolake - Momentum (Imbalance)
Tim Hecker - Radio Amor (Mille Plateaux)
Murcof - Martes (leaf)
Fairmount - Paper Stars
Lawrence - The absence Of Blight (Dual)
Luomo - The Present Lover (Force Tracks)
Ricardo Villalobos - Alcachofa (Playhouse)
Kylie - Body Language
Zoot Woman - Zoot Woman
Chicken Lips - Extended Play
Kraftwerk - Tour De France Soundtracks (Emi)

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My Robot Friend

1. unicorns - who will cut our hair when we're gone?
2. m. ward - transfiguration of vincent
3. shins - chutes too narrow
4. mu - afro finger and gel
5. zongamin - zongamin
6. sufjan stevens - michigan
7. matmos - the civil war
8. be good tanyas - chinatown
9. kevin blechdom - bitches without britches
10. orchestral manoeuvres in the dark - organization (usa reissue) &
architecture and mortality (usa reissue)

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Henri Landré (Programmateur musical Jet FM)

Matmos - the civil war (Matador)
Bonnie Prince Billy - masters and everyone (Drag City)
Pierre Barouh - ça va ça vient (Saravah, 1973)
Mendelson - seuls au sommet (Prohibited)
Aqnazar - rumi (Buda musique)

+ "L'Usage du monde" de Nicolas Bouvier, c'est pas neuf (1965) mais c'est à relire chaque année
! Les illustrations de Thierry Vernet qui l'accompagne sont magnifiques. Sinon, "La plus que vive"
de Christian Bobin (c'est pas neuf non plus).

+ un lieu, la Leteria Antica à Lisbonne, où l'on peut prendre de magnifiques petits déjeuners composés
de Galajo (sorte de café au lait très sucré avec plus de lait que de café), de sumo de laranja et de quelques
pastei de Belem croustillantes...

+ le site internet supermarcheferraille.com est absolument terrible; c'est le site du collectif Les Requins Marteaux,
des fous furieux qui font de la bande dessinée alternative et déjantée, leur supermarché existe vraiment et on peut
acheter en ligne leurs produits débiles !

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Erik Wiegand (Errorsmith, Smith N Hack, Soundhack,...)

outkast - ghettomusick
baby - what happened to that boy (instrumental)
missy elliott - wake up (instrumental)
hollow point - spree (coolie dance riddim)
sizzla - obstacles (pharao refix riddim)
reagan - huckner (tundra riddim)
vybz cartel - sweet to the belly (egyptian riddim)
elephant man - bad mind (robbery riddim)
alfa 8 - la tortuga ya salio
socavon - en memoria a nuestros ancestros (cd)

+ non musical souvenir : max msp finally available on pc

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Multipara (lux nigra)

the record: Sophie Rimheden - hi-fi (cd, mitek)
the memory: sharing an excellent bottle of castel del monte red wine
at the hotel with Annibale and Ed after our concert in bari

+ http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/

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